Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, February 4th.

Have you ever tried to help someone and they refused?

Many people do that when it comes to God's offer of salvation.

Today, we learn how to avoid that mistake.

Separation, rejection, isolation, alienation, all of these are emotions that none of us like.

In fact, we'd all like to avoid all of them, all of our life if we possibly could, but we cannot.

Because we live in a fallen world, we're going to experience those kind of emotions.

And it's one thing to experience them between us

and some other person. But when I think about separation, rejection, alienation, isolation,

in a person's relationship to God, how absolutely empty and futile life must be, to feel that

somewhere, somehow there must be a God out there,

but you don't feel in a relationship with him. No personal relationship. He's sort of that

invisible force out there. And something inside of you wants to relate to God. Something inside of

you desires a relationship with someone who's greater than you are and

someone who'd love you. But somehow, it just never has happened. The worst kind of alienation is

alienation from God. And that's what I'm going to talk about in this message entitled,

from alienation to reconciliation. And I want you to turn, if you will, to 2nd Corinthians chapter 5

in one of the most powerful passages of Scripture in the Bible

when it comes to understanding what God has been up to in all of our lives,

what he's up to in the world,

and what he's going to be up to until the day the Lord Jesus Christ comes.

2nd Corinthians chapter 5, and I want us to begin reading in verse 14 and read through the rest of this chapter

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